VOL. XIX. (3) 
ORDINARY WINTER iVlEETINGS 
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Tuesday, November 20th, 1917 
The I’l'esident in the Chair. 
The President cxliibited a small metal lamp said to have been found in 
Gloucester, and described as of Roman workmanship, but this was pro- 
nounced as of modern manufacture. Other articles found in the Sandhurst- 
Kingsholm district included a Romano-British culinder, and a jug of 
apparently foreign manufacture and mediaeval in date. These had been 
presented to the Gloucester Museum. 
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Mr Upton exhibited three small utensils, somewhat similar to honey jars, 
of late 17th c. or early i8th c. date, found at Clapton (N. London). 
Mr C. G. Clutterbuck exhibited specimens of the Gooseberry Saw-fly 
{Nematus Ribesii) found by him in May, and also a hornet found in Gloucester 
in October. 
The President exhibited a drawing of an extremely rare tile from Ewenny 
Priory : a representation of a very early shield bearing the trade-mark 
probably of a wool-merchant buried at Ewenny, it being the custom to use 
such marks by those not entitled to bear arms. 
Mr Hurry exhibited a slate tablet from the hill-district of Chamba,' 
Northern India, where it is the custom to place such memorials by the water 
supply of the villages in honour of deceased members of the community. 
Some of the tablets are six and seven feet high. On the one shown are 
carvings (measuring 8|- inches by 7 inches) of three figures, partly surrounded 
by a roughly-cut zig-zag border. 
The Re\'. A. R. Winnington-Ingram exhibited a specimen of the Little, 
or Danish, Owl, found on the railway near Barber’s Bridge. 
Colonel E. B. Jeune communicated some notes on “ Extinct Animals of 
Queensland ” and exhibited bones of animals found by him some thirty years 
ago in the banks of King’s Creek, on the Darling Downs, Queensland, among 
them those of Diprotodon megalanea (land-lizard). Macropus gigas (giant 
kangaroo). Wallaby (ancient), and the Wombat. 
“ The Darling Downs to-day consist of rolling downs extending for a 
couple of hundred miles at an elevation of about 1000 feet above sea-level, 
commencing about 100 miles from the coast. The soil is black volcanic, 20 
feet or so in depth, with hardly a stone, and in places there is a layer of pipe- 
clay just below it. In some places a layer of gravel gives a grand supply 
of water. There can be little doubt that in ages past there were vast swamps 
and lagoons here, and in droughts the various animals came to drink at the 
I A photograph of the tablet has been submitted to Mr W. Crooke, who is of opinion that it is a 
Sati (or Suttee) stone, and in this view Colonel Rose, a well-known authority on such matters, 
concurs. — R. A. 
